Word: sweringen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sweringen brothers (Oris Paxton & Mantis James) last week presented a revised arrangement of their railroads to the Interstate Commerce Commission for approval. As in the case of the Nickel Plate System plans, disapproved last year by the I. C. C. (TIME, March 15, 1926), Henry W. Anderson and George S. Kemp of Richmond, Va., who represent Chesapeake & Ohio minority stockholders, are opposing the Van Sweringens now. Hearings may last a year?as they did in the Nickel Plate System case...
...ever since have been closely bound in the affairs of this great branch of commerce. Down through the close of the century and on into the present decade roars the industry, and the latest exploits we hear of in connection with it are the affairs of the Van Sweringen brothers and their Nickel Plate Railway, and the remarkable way in which Commodore Arthur Curtiss James accumulated for himself such a tremendous control of the major roads of the country...
...President conferred with Michael Gallagher, coal manager for the vast Van Sweringen interests, meditated on the soft coal strike (see p. 10); did nothing...
...Sweringen brothers. (Oris P. & Mantis...
...Full name: New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. This is but one factor of the Van Sweringen's Nickel Plate System...